Sauces

This is a takeoff on something that I first encountered at Restaurante Diligencias in Tampico. I fell in love with their spicy version of a salsa verde, served on the side with fried shrimp or baked fillet of fish….

I am making some salsa veracruzana, the famed Old World-New World tomato sauce from the state of Veracruz, where it is often served with red snapper or huachinango. I am serving it with zucchini blossoms, filled with a queso fresco-cotija…

I thought that I had missed them this year. Every time I went to the green market, I checked all the stalls, starting with Tim Stark’s Eckerton Hill Farm where they had been available for the last few years and…

Salsa Macha Verde (Green “She-Man” Sauce) In San Andrés Tuxtla we were treated to a magnificent luncheon at La Caperucita, a magnet for good eating in the Tuxtlas area. (The name refers to the fairy tale…

Salsa Verde con Aguacate Green Sauce with Avocado (Recipe: Zarela’s Veracruz, Houghton Mifflin, 2001 The original recipe called for mashing the ingredients by hand with a mortar and pestle and mixing in the chopped avocado and the cilantro at the…